John Lennon Murdered - December 8th 1980

AN UNPREPOSSESSING LONER and college dropout, Mark David Chapman had reached the end of the line by the time he went to New York with a pistol in December 1980. He had suffered a nervous breakdown, and had also tried to take his own life three years earlier. In Chapman’s distorted view of the world now, someone would have to perish for his own existence to be meaningful. And tragically, that someone was former-Beatle John Lennon. The multitalented singer-songwriter had witnessed a steady increase in his per